Word: everydayness
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...comes on when it's really cold" As last week's open meeting of the student-faculty committee on College life reminds us, not all students concerns are this frivolous. For Harvard's seriously disabled students, as speakers at the meeting made clear, even the most mundane details of everyday life can turn into serious problems; for them, virtually every freedom of college--from choosing classes to choosing roommates--is subject to some kind of restriction...
...Shooting Stars has all the qualities of a wonderful folktale--at once pungently earthy and dreamily fantastic. It unfolds to the leisurely rhythms of its own peculiar inner life and logic. It's a magical film, where the horrors of war, the crude beauty and humor of everyday existence, and the wonder of childhood all intersect in a flash of dream and memory...
These people are not the same as those that inhabit the Iliad (so beloved of Cecelia's grandfather). They do not rise to the heroism of combat. Rather, heroism descends to the level of their everyday lives. The ordinary gestures of masculine courtesy take on a grand sweeping quality, and the banality of names take on an almost ritualistic significance when the men in the group have to change their to join a band of partisans. One young man, in memory of his stint as a choirboy, picks the name Requiem--a poignantly appropriate choice, as later events reveal...
Passion is also the heart's blood of the theater, and Williams is to the stage what a lion is to the jungle. At its best, his dialogue sings with a tone-poem eloquence far from the drab disjunctive patterns of everyday talk. He is an electrifying scenewright simply because his people are the sort who are born to make scenes, explosively and woundingly. In Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Big Daddy jerks the crutch out from under his son Brick's arm and sends him sprawling in agony; a few minutes later Brick kicks the life...
Every day I always met Bobby in front of the school building and everyday. I noticed he had a different bruise on his face or arms and sometimes on his neck. Everyday it was the same story he always fell from something. Carmel Zavala, grade 7 Crystal City...